Overview

• Suriname is the first Amazon country certified malaria-free by WHO after sustaining three consecutive years without local transmission.
• The elimination campaign centered on rapid case detection alongside free treatment in remote rainforest communities.
• Community engagement along with targeted research sustained prevention efforts against malaria resurgence.
• Forty-six countries now hold WHO malaria-free status under the criterion of three years without transmission.
• In 2023 malaria sickened an estimated 263 million people across 83 countries, causing 597,000 deaths predominantly among children under five.